# Afraid

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- Book: [Afraid](https://www.bookquiver.com/mandasue-heller/afraid) ([Afraid.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mandasue-heller/afraid.md))
- Authors: [Mandasue Heller](https://www.bookquiver.com/mandasue-heller)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4476-953-1
- Published: 2015-01-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn Skye over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins. No one will let her talk to her father. And the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying 'home' that's more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl she's met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have a home life as unhappy as Skye's. So when Jade offers Skye - now alone in Manchester and nearly penniless - a safe place to stay, Skye is willing to trust her. Even when it isn't Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he's Jade's brother . . . 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not 'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone' Sun on Two-Faced